Healing verses Cure

Dear Jerome, You might hear banter about how you can heal yourself. But what if you’re still sick? Does that mean you’re not doing a good job of self-healing? Let me teach you something critical. There’s a difference between healing and curing. To heal means to restore wholeness. To cure means to eliminate disease. Here’s […]

Quieting the Mind

QUIETING THE MIND BY DEGREES “In short, “getting it together” requires slowing the mind. Quieting the mind means less thinking, calculating, judging, worrying, fearing, hoping, trying, regretting, controlling, jittering or distracting. The mind is still when it is totally here and now in perfect oneness with the action and the actor. It is the purpose […]

Challenges are Clues

Challenges are clues that there is some suffering in our lives that we are not addressing properly. It may relate to our health, or wealth, or our general well-being. The way around them is to look deeply into our hearts and recognize the challenges for what they are. This way, we can apply our mindfulness […]

An Evening of Mindfulness

On Thursday, September 24, I offered an evening of mindfulness in Santa Monica on Healing Cancer with Meditation. The evening was made possible by the generous support of Alicia Dunams who made all the arrangements and provided the support staff. The evening of mindfulness coincided with the launch of my new book, Healing the the […]

Take the Cancer Quiz

Take the Cancer Quiz to Find Out How Not to Get this Dreaded Disease As you probably know, I am a cancer survivor for almost nineteen years. My son is a cancer survivor for 39 years. You may also know that we used the Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing to thrive and succeed in […]

How Life Tells You It’s Time for a Change – Purpose Fairy

How Life Tells You It’s Time for a Change. It’s incredible how many things can change in two years and how much a person can be transformed in such a short period of time. Source: How Life Tells You It’s Time for a Change – Purpose Fairy

5 Rules of Mind-Body Healing

The 5 Rules of Mind-Body Healing: How To Regain & Maintain Perfect Health is title an article I just read on Soulvana blog. The article begins with this statement: Science has suggested that it’s possible to accelerate physical, emotional and spiritual healing with the sheer power of your mind. In this lesson, learn the 5 […]

A Quiet Life Stimulates the Creative Mind

This year is the 100th anniversary of the general theory of relativity by Albert Einstein. He was known to be a solitary person who spent most of his time alone. He is know to have said, “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” In my opinion, a quiet life does […]

Mindfulness in Daily Life

These words of wisdom for Zen Master Eihei Dogen teach us about mindfulness in daily life. This is actually quite a universal teaching these days by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Phillip Moffitt, and many others. The idea is to take your mindfulness into your life in order to enrich your everyday experience. […]

Finding the Courage to be Vulnerable Again – Purpose Fairy

Finding the Courage to Be Vulnerable Again. “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” Source: Finding the Courage to be Vulnerable Again – Purpose Fairy